It’s hard to remember, if you are deeply immersed in tracking political, cultural, or social issues that most people don’t have a clue about what is going on.
That may be infuriating, but it is actually a reflection of a good thing. People should be allowed to live their lives without having to keep track of everything going on in the world. Politics shouldn’t impact your life too often except when big things are happening, and cultural trends should be a spectator sport, not life and death issues.
That’s one of my arguments for limited government: the better the government, the less you have to care about what they do. “That government is best that governs least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Unfortunately such luxuries are rarer and rarer in the modern world, where governments are huge, invasive, and influence every aspect of our lives.
I ran across a fascinating…
